Fintan Whelan

Fintan Whelan

Gestural abstraction exploring perception's fluidity, where vibrant color and textured materiality become sites of intense emotional and visual resonance.

SERIES

In his pictorial practice, Fintan Whelan investigates painting as a constantly transforming field, where color, light, and matter operate as active forces in continuous displacement. His work explores the fluidity of perception and the impossibility of fixing visual experience in a closed form, constructing open compositions that convey a sense of movement, suspension, and change. Through a gestural and almost alchemical process, based on the superposition of pigments, oils, varnishes, and various materials, each painting is configured as a record of gesture, time, and the interaction between surface and light.

13 works in the series

Works by Fintan Whelan in the catalogue: Abundance · Another world · Echoes in the Light · Eternal Summer · Labyrinth of reflection · Land layers · Layered Nature · Layers of perception · Limits of longing · Magnetic Echoes · Natural Voices II · Strata of memory · Water Dance I - Art Biennale Venice 2022